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  • July 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    A Niche With Staying Power

    It's almost become a lawyer meme that the International Trade Commission, a once-obscure quasi-judicial body, is a hot forum for patent disputes because it handles cases quickly and offers po

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  • February 22, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Conflicts Arise When Complying With U.S. and E.U. Laws

    As companies in the U.S. work to comply with laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), they often conduct internal investigations that rely, in part, on collecting information fr

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  • May 1, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Top Court Weighs Application of RICO to Business Relationships

    The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to pleas by business advocates not to "RICO-ize" all types of business relationships, as Justice Stephen Breyer put it, during oral arguments Wednesday.

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  • June 5, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    A Bird in the Sand May Put Two in the Hoosegow

    When U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of Houston instructed jurors in the criminal case of former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, he told the panel t

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  • June 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Exit Strategies

    In today's legal climate it is prudent for employers to handle terminations for performance with velvet gloves. Each year in California the number of arbitration and court filings for wrongful

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  • May 9, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    LATERALS Dewey Ballantine (New York): J. Anthony Terrell, Catherine C. Hood and Michael F. Fitzpatrick Jr., formerly of Thelen Reid & Priest, have joined the corporate de

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  • July 16, 2007 | Legal Times

    Robert Corn-Revere

    "Mr. First Amendment." That's how one of Robert Corn-Revere's clients describes the Davis Wright Tremaine partner, best known for his legal expertise in indecency and obscenity.

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  • August 18, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Taking It Outside: Who Represents America's Biggest Companies

    We researched the Fortune 100 to find out which law firms they used in 2008 in each of the following practice areas: corporate transactions, torts a

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  • December 8, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Part of the food chain

    Name and title: Douglas T. Nelson, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary Age: 61 Agriculture a

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  • March 8, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Shifting gears

    In his last three years as chief executive officer of KB Home, Bruce Karatz made $232 million, most of it from stock options of the high-flying homebuilder. But many more option

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